Chip Brownlee is a former political reporter, online content manager and webmaster at the Alabama Political Reporter. He is now a reporter at The Trace, a non-profit newsroom covering guns in America.
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — A House prison construction plan in the works is expected to include the provisions that would allow...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — A House committee gave a favorable report to a Senate bill Tuesday that would shorten the time...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — The House Judiciary Committee is expected to take up legislation authorizing the Alabama Prison Transformation Initiative...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — When Prichard Police Captain Charles Kennedy walked into a religious camp for troubled teens in Mobile...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — Alabama Senate Republicans on Thursday passed a new legislative redistricting plan that will adjust more than...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — An unlikely issue has become one of the most contentious topics in the State House this session:...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Senate has passed a largely level-funded General Fund Budget of more than $1.8 billion,...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey on Wednesday signed a controversial bill into law that will allow faith-based adoption...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — Democrats promised to hold up progress in the Alabama House of Representatives on Tuesday after a clash...
By Chip Brownlee Alabama Political Reporter MONTGOMERY — The Alabama Finance Department is set to terminate its contract with a technology company over the controversial $47-million STAARS software...